Jeremiah 48:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁷ For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ For was not Israel [an object of] derision to you? Was he found among thieves–since whenever you speak of him you wag your head [in scorn]?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Wasn’t Israel the butt of your jokes? Didn’t you shake your head as if they were thieves caught in the act?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ For Israel had been a derision to them. It was as if you had discovered him among thieves. Because of your own words, then, which you have spoken against him, you will be led away captive.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ For Israel hath been a derision unto thee: as though thou hadst found him amongst thieves: for thy words therefore, which thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be led away captive.

Jeremiah 48:27 Cross References

Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake mine head at you.

Psalm 44:13

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Psalm 64:8

So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

Psalm 79:4

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Jeremiah 18:16

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

Jeremiah 2:26

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, the adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.

Ezekiel 25:8

Thus saith the Lord GOD Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations;

Ezekiel 35:15

As thou didst rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 36:2

Thus saith the Lord GOD Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession:

Ezekiel 36:4

therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD Thus saith the Lord GODto the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about:

Zephaniah 2:10

This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

Zephaniah 2:8

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

Matthew 26:55

In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not.

Matthew 27:38

Then are there crucified with him two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on the left.

Matthew 7:2

For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.